Unkempt Beauty: Complete with her tomboyish nature, Max doesn't usually take care of her appearance. She still looks beautiful.

Woman in Black: Often in leather too, especially when about to burgle something.

You Are Number Six: The X5s gave each other names. Manticore gave them numbers. This is shown unpleasantly at the start of season 2, where part of Max's reindoctrination involves identifying herself as 'X5-452'. If she refuses, she's locked in a box for a week.

Logan Cale/Eyes Only (Michael Weatherly)

Genius Cripple: His spine is damaged in the very first episode, leaving him paraplegic. He is still invaluable as a hacker and general computer whizz.

Green-Eyed Monster: Only on one occasion, but he jumps to the conclusion that Max and Alec are in a relationship based on seeing them having a friendly conversation outside Max's apartment. He then gets drunk and confronts Max with his suspicions.

Hero with Bad Publicity: His role in Eyes Only gets him some heat, despite trying to get the truth out. Siding with the transgenics doesn't do him any favours either.

Hollywood Hacking: It's made very aesthetically pleasing, and very simple. Sometimes all it takes is one button click.

Intrepid Reporter: To the point that he can't even go on a holiday without trying to find out the truth about some police brutality that occurred after the Pulse.

Knight in Sour Armor - Lost some of his idealism over time. The prequel novel "Before the Dawn" shows that he was against killing bad guys and chewed Max's brother Seth out for doing so, but by the time of the series he's over it. Blaming himself for getting Seth killed, which he hides from Max until "After the Dark", may have something to do with it.

Knowledge Broker: Comes with being able to hack into anything, and being filthy rich.

Perma Stubble: Perhaps to emphasise that his work takes priority over everything else.

Phrase Catcher: As Eyes Only: "This is a streaming freedom video bulletin. It cannot be traced, it cannot be stopped and it is the only free voice left in this city... This has been a streaming freedom video bulletin. Peace, out."

Establishing Character Moment: Lydecker establishes himself as both a determinator and a complete dick when he goes to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for the sole purpose of telling them how weak they are. You see, when he gave up drinking, he did it cold turkey under his own willpower. He didn't whine about how he had a disease and he needed help. The irony when he later falls Off The Wagon is delicious.

Handsome Lech: In "Gill Girl," he's the one who finds out about the captured transgenic, because he was at a strip club at the time.

Heel-Face Turn: Starts off working for Renfro to track down Eyes Only. When Manticore explodes, he's in it for himself for a while, until he eventually befriends Max and the gang.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be a selfish jerk sometimes, but he can also be kind. Most noticeable with Joshua. He also has a moment with Max at the end of Hello, Goodbye, after she tells him about Ben.

Genius Bruiser: Can seem simple due to his lack of world experience, but has a high IQ.

Gentle Giant: Easily the sweetest member of the team, though he towers over Max (and everyone else).

The Heart: Joshua is everyone's friend, even Alec and Max can't resist him. Most noticeable at the start of The Berrisford Agenda, where he invites everyone to dinner. He's also unfailingly supportive about people's problems ("Virus bitch going down!")

Unskilled, but Strong: Joshua never uses the military/martial arts combat moves we see the other transgenics use. Since he seems to be stronger than them though, this doesn't work to his disadvantage. Noticeable in Designate This, when Max and Alec are trying to saw through bars on a window, since they can't remove it. Eventually, Joshua walks over and yanks the whole thing off the wall with ease.

You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: Most of the time, Joshua is very sweet. However when the Familiars attack Jam Pony in Freak Nation, he's tossing them around like rag dolls (while the other transgenics have a much tougher time). When he gets his hands on Ames White, Joshua comes very close to ripping him in half.

Asha Barlow (Ashley Scott)

Pair the Spares - looked like she and Alec were going this way, until they didn't

La Résistance: An important member of the S 1 W, who fight against police brutality and corruption in Seattle.

Knight Templar Big Brother - unapologetically kills Vogelsang (the information broker Max hired, who was later squeezed down by Lydecker) to protect his siblings

Neuro-Vault: Apparently, Manticore trained them to forget information in case they are captured by the enemy. Zack does exactly this when Manticore captures him, so that he can't reveal the locations of his siblings.

The Storyteller: In order to explain the things that happened to them as children, Ben would make up stories. Max theorises that when he got into the real world, he couldn't handle the amount of unexplainable things, and it broke him.

Super Soldier: All the X5s are super soldiers, complete with enhanced strength, endurance, agility and speed.

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